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Life- A Perilous Voyage

By A Anato Swu | EMN Life’s often not what the eye sees. A vessel sailing in the great seas. Calm to a beholder on the shore. Peril to hand that steers the oar. Happy deck-hands on friendly water, Setting up proud sails on fair weather, Soon m...

02 Nov 2018

Ode to a Lost Brother

By A. Anato Swu Tears for a Lost Brethren. (Death Be Not Proud) Tears so liberally flow down this face, While thy soul stealthy takes its place In t’e paradise of each fulfilled dreams, Where joy eternal runs in clear streams. You’d wait with an...

25 Oct 2018

Scars of My Life’s Battles and Wars

By A Anato Swu Of my personal battles and wars I carry many big and small scars. In the eyes of the world it is ugly, But I’ve learnt to take it as lovely. For I lived to tell about each scar Even to those peoples from afar. Each ugly scar bears a ...

13 Oct 2018

Romance of Holiness

By Ambrose.J.Chakre Not a love exist like yours In your faithfulness You laid down your life To pull us out of the pit Lifting us up to where you are: In your holiness you revive us to it. No one loves us like you do: In your righteousness you sent ...

11 Jul 2018

You Lose When You Quit

By Kepevino Hozoyeh There is a lion roaring inside of you; Wanting to scream for justice! Many innocent lives destroyed in front of you Your hands are not tied yet you can do nothing So much of anger inside of you Not because of the corruption aroun...

12 Jun 2018

The “If” and “Cannot” of Naga Nationalism

By Kaka D. Iralu  If “revelation” was just a creation of man pretending to be God; and if human history was just a fairy tale of monkeys evolving into man; Then why should I waste my time defending my unique history and my lands? After all, whe...

26 May 2018

Kekhrie Apfo (Loving Mother)

A name That always comes to mind In pain or in joy In fears or in courage A name we all call Mother, Mother Loving all in all To wake u for our times To feed us for our strength To run for our errands Mother, Mother Even when in grief And shames we b...

12 May 2018

Sonnet to My Mum

Life has not been easy As you drift apart for a reason You keep yourself busy Why I have to face all those season. You missed all those days of green Past can never be seen. As you someday I’ll grow old And my hair will turn gold. When the world ta...

12 May 2018

Happy Mother’s Day in Heaven

Dear Mum in Heaven I Just Want You to Know How Much I Miss You Everyday And How Much I Love You So I Cannot Send You a Card But I Can Send My Love Upon the Wings of Angels To Heaven Up Above I Wish You Happy Mother’s Day For You Were the Best To Ha...

11 May 2018

I Have a Dream (#Naga_manu_laga_sapna)

By A. Anato Swu | EMN I am a naga, and I have a dream: Of our Land peopled by a united tribe, Pledged to live as Heavens prescribe; And love & kindness for all subscribe. I am a naga, and I have a dream: Of our land free from unabated corruption,...

26 Mar 2018

The Women’s Fight

By Eyingbeni Hümtsoe-Nienu | EMN Shame! Shame! Shame the silence! That hushes her pain, Takes away her years, And gives her tears. She was fourteen when a stranger raped her, They tried to abort the baby, But it was way too late. They gave the infa...

07 Mar 2018

Human Body, Greatest Temple

By Mithilesh Kumar Sinha | EMN Human body, greatest temple Made by omnipotent God Outside of ourselves impossible To find omnipresent Lord The temple outside around us Constructed by human beings Representation of image of God Where be possible stat...

20 Jan 2018

In the Beginning

By Ningreichon Tungshang | EMN When life was breathed Hope and dignity was weaved Thy who gave us freedom Gave us land we now protect, With our lives and history So that our stories and streams will be free And our minds and spirit un-oppressed Our ...

09 Jan 2018

Bordered Differences: “Envisaging a Naga Path”

By Asangba Tzudir | EMN Ingrained in a unique history and identity, as a Naga peoples’ … Down a beautiful memory lane, there’s a Naga path, Almost forgotten to the brink of oblivion. It lays waiting, to embrace and assert, With dignity and int...

06 Jan 2018

Naga Day

By Easterine Kire | EMN This is our story: In 1929 The Naga Club Submitted a memorandum to the Simon Commission The first written record That stated ‘Nagas are one’ They made it clear They did not belong To any other but the Naga race Not to the...

02 Jan 2018

From ‘Dark Past’ to the ‘Present Light’

Behold her, a life reflecting Love & Light Of the Creator who lets her shine bright, And spread His message of Life & Hope To souls who in Dark continue to grope… Souls suffering for making wrong Choice, Being guided today by her Love a...

18 Nov 2017

Disaster Explaining What?

Enraged nature has shown human a glitter On hill like partial annihilation came disaster High buildings fell down like kids’playthings Stuffy buses-cars floated like empty baskets No sign of bridge-roads left over on earth Under stone countless pro...

12 Nov 2017

Transition

From Darkness to Light Some nights, when the world’s fast asleep, And silence reigns over the darkness deep, His thoughts struggle wit’ his wish to rest, Steal his moments like an uninvited guest Who narrates stories o’ the miserable past, To e...

07 Nov 2017

The God of “The Second Chance”

There are times when the sinners silently weep, Finding themselves drowning, sinking deep, In the murky waters of worldly pleasure They once loved to swim in at leisure, To exercise their God-given freewill, With a choice that would only kill- Both t...

05 Nov 2017

Amidst Storms of Life?

When stormy clouds of adversity Overshadow the plan of Almighty And cast gloom over your labour To rob you of your joy & honour… When despair creeps into your life And cuts deep into hope like a knife To leave you wounded & pleading For...

01 Nov 2017

Life Continues

Empty Room, depressed Mind, Tears of the inconsolable kind; Cries from the aggrieved heart, Bearing burden of mindful hurt. Poor Soul, it pours when it rains for me. Presenting a blurred vision of w’at I see. Makes me wonder what life is all about-...

01 Nov 2017

The Love Story

Oh dear,I still feel the passion of yours for me, I do feel how you keep me close to you. I feel the touch when you hold me, The way you keep me safe. The passion of yours for me, Will never let me forget you. The way you pull me slowly, And the way ...

01 Nov 2017

My Dreams Will Still Be My Own

I wish to close my eyes and spread my wings. Make a wish and dream good dreams. Cause life is short and very frail. Just  want to be still and take a look.   Before I know that it is just a dream, And  realize it was all a lie. And said everyt...

30 Oct 2017

Hard Decisive Days

Days fleeting by like clouds ere the storm, Hastened by adversity in its cruelest form, T’at eats away into the fibres of your heart, As time flies, and a relationship falls apart. Oh! Who had but foreseen such outcome: Of Love waxing cold in spiri...

28 Oct 2017

I-Ness

‘I’ denotes the ego Root cause of evils ‘I’ carries tonnes of egoism Makes human devils. Anger, pride, jealousy, greed Sturdy branches of tree ‘I’ Which have roots in mind It creates the feeling of ‘my’. ‘I’ and ‘mine ‘play gr...

22 Oct 2017
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